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On contrary, I have a near obsession on never missing anything. This can be taken as far as coming to school sick <.<
Yeah, I freak and go into state of anxiety on days I am home when I SHOULD be in school. XD

Believe it or not, my mom would make me.
Seriously, when I was a kid, there would be days when she would just feel like absolute crap, and out of the blue, she’d ask me “I’m sick. Do you wanna go to school today?”
“…No…”
“OK, you don’t have to go to school today.”

Wierd thing was she never drove me to school, either. From 4th grade straight through High School I walked to and from. So basically her getting sick was a freebie card for me to stay home and play video games all day.

The time I ever did this was mostly in fourth grade. My teacher was abusive, physically and emotionally (and, as I look back at it now, she probably broke several laws in her course of student abuse), and I couldn’t stand going.

Since then I’ve not called in sick unless I really was sick. I don’t care to get fired–at my last job oh so many coworkers were fired for calling in and then being seen in public later in the day.

I loathe missing school right now because I’m a senior, and let’s face it I shouldn’t be missing as many days as I have. Only one day I’ve missed so far has been a freebie, and that was for senior pictures.

Well you know. In college I would call in sick to class on days more important things were happening. I.E. a really cool concert in Rochester!
But then again in college if you miss class its typically not that big of a deal. Just make up your work.

School? Oh yeah. Quite often. And then I’d play video games or chat online all day. Nowadays, when I call in sick to work, it’s due to emotional exhaustion, so I sleep all day. Go, Go Emergency Departments!

Oh, ALL THE TIME. At least once a month. I get tired, or just don’t want to get out of bed. My job is boring and half the time I have little to nothing to do so why not? I have the hours (we get 16 hours each month) so no harm no foul… Oh did I mention I work for the State (i.e. no worries about being fired or being checked up on – only if you miss 3 consecutive days). Oh yeah.

I called in sick because even though I asked for the time off a month before scheduled me on the second day of my local anime convention. There was a voice acting panel on that second day that I surely wasn’t going to miss. It is my dream job. I phoned in sick using my voice acting talent and made them believe that I had strep throat so I wouldn’t be able to work. I was even able to fake getting better 3 days later.

to those of you that go to work/school when sick because you panic otherwise.please stay home.
you dont have to feel bad about it.when you go in with something like a cold you could spread it to others…

I do really well about not calling in sick to school for about the first two months or so of the semester, but those last few weeks? Yeah, I miss a lot of class due to illness or alien abduction. But this semester, I’ve missed nearly a month trying to nurse my husband back to health from H1N1-pneumonia. And my teachers don’t believe me. 🙁

I’ve called in sick to work a few times. Mostly to spend time with friends and family, or go to concerts. Sometimes just because I need to take a “mental health day”, and spend an entire day doing nothing.

At my previous job, they have an extremely generous PTO allowance – at one point I had accumulated 4-5 weeks worth of PTO after a few years in… combined with slow times every now and then… it was kinda nice if I needed to catch up on sleep to just tell my supervisor “Don’t feel well. Taking the afternoon off and heading home” or those days when my sinuses flared up, I’d just fire off an Email and say “Sinus headache. Taking the day off”. At one point enough employees like I did had plenty of PTO banked that we were ordered to burn half of it before the end of the fiscal year… ’twas fun as I got to go on many mini-roadtrips over consecutive weeks going where I felt like going. XD
My current job? Feast to famine. I got nailed by H1N1 and have effectively wiped out my first years’ vacation and PTO allotment. :-/

Well, mine is the most tragic…I was staying home from school on a mental health day. 9/11 happened, so I got a good view of the Twin Towers burning even though I live in Washington. Can’t seem to think that H1N1 would actually seem more tragic than that.

I was never able to just call in sick for school as since my mum is a pharmacist, whenever i tried to say that i wasn’t feeling well to get her to call the school, she would just go to the medicine cabinet get out about 10 different tablets, all of which tasted absolutely disgusting, and told me to take the tablets and we were leaving in half an hour… But on the bright side, whenever i had any kind of sports day, i just got her to write me a sick note and i could just mess around at home.

I’ve done it in the past, haven’t done it with any of the jobs I’ve had recently.

When I was in High School, I had first and second period Co-op, where I was supposed to go work a job as a class, but the co-op job I worked for didn’t open until 11am, which was when second period was almost over. So I ended up doing my co-op after work, meaning I got to sleep in until lunch. But, since my dad was the principal of my school, I often called him and said, dad, I don’t feel well, I won’t be coming in today, and for a while he was ok. Then he started to tell me I had to come in.

And most of the time I’ve called in sick when I wasn’t, I’d sleep in, then play video games or play guitar or something.